President Joe Biden warned about the looming threat of autocracy during his speech marking the first anniversary of the January 6 Capitol attack on Thursday and denounced his predecessor Donald Trump for inciting the rioters. In a statement responding to Biden’s speech, Trump continued to falsely claim the 2020 election was rigged.
Former Pentagon adviser Ryan Goodman says former President Trump could have used the Insurrection Act to hold onto power during the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by his supporters. “There needs to be reform of the Insurrection Act,” says Goodman, who authored the report “Crisis of Command: The Pentagon, the President, and January 6” for Just Security, where he is co-editor.
Brian Kilmeade also dismissed Trump’s complaints of election fraud.
Recently released texts underscore right-wing Fox News hosts’ astounding influence on the former president.
More than 800,000 noncitizens and “Dreamers” in New York City will have access to the ballot box for municipal elections as soon as next year.
“We need to be impartial,” GOP Sen. Scott Baldwin told a history teacher who noted his class was studying the rise of Nazism and fascism.
The documents, obtained by The Associated Press, underscore the uneven and muddled intelligence that circulated to Capitol Police officers ahead of the Jan. 6 riot.
We get an update from Sudan, where at least three pro-democracy protesters were killed by security forces on Thursday, bringing the death toll to at least 60 since the military coup on October 25. Thursday’s protest came four days following Abdalla Hamdok’s resignation as Sudan’s prime minister, after he was deposed in the October coup and then shortly restored to power by the military in November.
We look at the skyrocketing number of COVID infections. Coronavirus cases hit record highs this week, with global cases climbing 70% from last week to 9.5 million and the U.S. reporting a single-day record of 1 million new cases on Monday. In the U.S., the extraordinary volume of cases is filling up emergency rooms nationwide and exhausting healthcare workers, says emergency room physician Dr. Craig Spencer, who has been treating coronavirus patients since the pandemic began.
President Joe Biden warned about the looming threat of autocracy during his speech marking the first anniversary of the January 6 Capitol attack on Thursday and denounced his predecessor Donald Trump for inciting the rioters. In a statement responding to Biden’s speech, Trump continued to falsely claim the 2020 election was rigged.
Former Pentagon adviser Ryan Goodman says former President Trump could have used the Insurrection Act to hold onto power during the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by his supporters. “There needs to be reform of the Insurrection Act,” says Goodman, who authored the report “Crisis of Command: The Pentagon, the President, and January 6” for Just Security, where he is co-editor.
The former vice president wants to cooperate but probably won’t do it voluntarily, said Alyssa Farah Griffin.
“What happened to you, man?” asked fellow Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger.
Bernard Adams, a former NYPD sergeant, has been managing parking at a Virginia college campus since 2008.
President Biden was also on hand to honor the influential senator at a memorial service packed with top Democratic leaders.
Former Pentagon adviser Ryan Goodman says former President Trump could have used the Insurrection Act to hold onto power during the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by his supporters. “There needs to be reform of the Insurrection Act,” says Goodman, who authored the report “Crisis of Command: The Pentagon, the President, and January 6” for Just Security, where he is co-editor.
“In effect … you gotta go to the streets and be as violent as antifa” and Black Lives Matter, the Texas Republican said on Newsmax days before the Jan. 6 riot.
“There’s nothing less conservative [than] trying to overturn democratic process,” snapped Alyssa Farah Griffin.
The Alabama Republican, who talked of “blood” sacrifice at Trump’s Jan. 6 rally, said the account from Kevin McCarthy’s ex-aide was “total bovine excrement.
“Pretty ballsy of the Texas GOP to run on a ‘f—k you’ platform this year,” one Twitter user noted.
Sen. Ted Cruz apologized for calling the Capitol rioters “terrorists.” Tucker Carlson — a devout Jan. 6 revisionist — didn’t accept the apology.
Justice Elena Kagan said officials have shown “quite clearly that no other policy will prevent sickness and death to anywhere like the degree that this one will.
We get an update from Sudan, where at least three pro-democracy protesters were killed by security forces on Thursday, bringing the death toll to at least 60 since the military coup on October 25. Thursday’s protest came four days following Abdalla Hamdok’s resignation as Sudan’s prime minister, after he was deposed in the October coup and then shortly restored to power by the military in November.
We look at the skyrocketing number of COVID infections. Coronavirus cases hit record highs this week, with global cases climbing 70% from last week to 9.5 million and the U.S. reporting a single-day record of 1 million new cases on Monday. In the U.S., the extraordinary volume of cases is filling up emergency rooms nationwide and exhausting healthcare workers, says emergency room physician Dr. Craig Spencer, who has been treating coronavirus patients since the pandemic began.
President Joe Biden warned about the looming threat of autocracy during his speech marking the first anniversary of the January 6 Capitol attack on Thursday and denounced his predecessor Donald Trump for inciting the rioters. In a statement responding to Biden’s speech, Trump continued to falsely claim the 2020 election was rigged.
The Texas senator went on Fox News to seek forgiveness for offending the host.
Seven residents of Brevard County — where cruelty and violence are fixtures of “Make America Great Again” politics — have been arrested since Jan. 6, 2021.
The South Carolina Republican has changed his tune dramatically since this time last year.
According to a Capitol Police timeline obtained by Politico, the then-vice president-elect was evacuated seven minutes after the bomb was discovered.
Oregon’s secretary of state ruled that Kristof did not meet residency requirements. Kristof is appealing the decision.